Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 279, Ed. 3 Wednesday, January 10, 1968 Page: 1 of 12
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man said.
and Faye Dunaway, ac-
tress.
Traffic was snarled on many major throughfares be-
cause of accidents. Two police officers were involved in
accidents.
In one, traffic investigator Logan Waldrup was in-
volved in a two-car crackup at NW 44 and Portland and
was taken to Mercy Hospital, where his condition was re-
ported not serious. . .
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A thin but dangerous sheet of ice settled on Oklaho-
ma City streets early Wednesday and surprised motorists
skidded their way to work.
Oklahoma City police reported more than three doz-
en accidents between 7:15 and 8:15 a.m., several with in-
juries.
The glazed streets caught the street department by
surprise, too, but sanding and salting crews were round-
ed up by 3 a m. Crews started on downtown streets and
worked toward the outskirts of the city.
Both Midwest City and Edmond police reported 15-
car pileups.
By 8 a.m. all Oklahoma City traffic investigators
were working accidents, and police asked motorists in-
volved in inor mishaps to exchange information them-
selves.
At one point, all ambulances working in the central
part of Oklahoma City were tied up on calls.
Gold Cross Ambulance, 304 NW 10, reported making
15 emergency calls in a two-hour period beginning at 6
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tals reported four each by mid morning.
Fred Thompson, city street superintendent, said
streets began freezing about 3 a.m. The city was caught
without warning and only the regular night shift of 26
men was on duty.
He said as workmen showed up at the street depart-
ment garage, they were sent out on trucks to begin the ,
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Why is it that during the homeward traffic rush on N
Robinson to connect with the Broadway Extension there
is only one north-bound traffic lane? It seems to have
happened a number of times at hours when, logically,
there should be two-north-bound lanes. C. B.
James H. Robinson, traffic control director, says this
traffic flow, from NW 30 north, is controlled by a comput-
• er that determines the amount of traffic flow and sets the
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Action Line’s Oughta Be a Law game officially
became non-partisan Wednesday with acceptance of
judging chores by:
Sen. Denzil Garrison (R-Bartlesville), senate mi-
nority leader, and Rep. Leland Wolf (D-Noble), house
majority leader, with an assist from Jack Rhodes,
Legislative council director.
They will screen finalists after the project closes
February 29. For latest citizens’ views, see Page 15.
By Jack Taylor
Of the State Staff
PURCELL — A long-time
Oklahoma school administra-
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with embezzlement while
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north-bound lanes. If south-bound traffic is the heaviest,
there are two south-bound lanes.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Three
patients were found dead
early Wednesday in a men’s
dormitory at the St. Louis
State School and Hospital in
north St. Louis County.
Dr. Cecil Baker, the hospi-
tal superintendent, said only
that the patients were found
dead "without obvious medi-
cal cause."
An aide found one of the
bodies a few minutes before
6 a.m. Other attendants soon
after found two more bodies
in adjoining beds in another
section.
There were 29 patients in
the dormitory.
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State: Cloudy and cold
with freezing drizzle creat-
ing hazardous driving con-
ditions southeast and cen-
tral through Wednesday af-
ternoon. Cloudy and not so
cold Thursday. Overnight
low 18 northwest to 32
southeast. High Thursday
38 northeast to 50 north-
west. (Details, Page 32.)
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half-mile west of Douglas Blvd, shortly after 7 a.m. Ed-
mond had a 15-car pileup at the intersection of I-35 and
Memorial Road.
Hospitals reported more than two dozen cases of
pedestrians falling on slippery idewalks and fracturing
arms or legs.
Presbyterian Hospital emergency room said, "We’re
filled up."
South Community said it had treated seven fall vic-
tims, while Mercy, St. Anthony and Midwest City hospi-
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ATOKA — More than 200
cars and trucks were
stalled for nearly 12 hours
in- —sub-freezing tempera—
tures Tuesday night and
early Wednesday on an icy
hill between Atoka and
Kiowa.
Shivering motorists took
refuge in crowded motels,
a restaurant and a gymna-
sium.
Some travelers remained
in their cars, but many ex-
hausted their gasoline sup-
ply keeping their heaters
going and had to call on
highway patrolmen for ex-
tra fuel.
Authorities closed US-69
at Atoka to northbound
traffic and at Kiowa to ve-
hicles headed south over
Limestone Gap in the Pine
Mountains of southeastern
Oklahoma.
It was on the long, steep
grade at Limestone Gap
where two trucks over-
turned and 200 other vehi-
cles were quickly immobi-
lized by a rapidly-forming
sheet of ice.
Light rain, freezing as it
hit, made the road im-
passable despite efforts to
sand hills.
Highway patrol Trooper
Cecil Craig parked his pa-
trol car across US-69 in
front of Mary Nick’s Cafe
in Kiowa and wouldn’t let
anyone headed south go
through toward Limestone
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nam’s Communist high com-
mand has committed its mil-
itary forces to a burgeoning,
nationwide ‘offensive in the
first days of 1968. It has two
major objectives, the most
experienced observers be-
lieve.
One is to undermine rural
people’s confidence in the
Saigon government, particu-
larly in regions where pacifi-
cation has been a priority.
The second objective is the
severe punishment of allied
forces, testing their morale
and writing headlines in the
world’s press. Three times
more Americans were killed
in the first week of 1968 than
in the first week of 1967.
The objective of punishing
allied forces was sought and
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NEW YORK (AP) — Louis Block, the world's fifth
heart transplant recipient, died Wednesday just 10 hours
after a surgical team had implanted a much smaller wom-
an’s heart into the 170-pound man.
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn said the death
occurred at 4:35 a.m. and attributed it to the "pumping ca-
pacity of the transplanted heart and the poor condition of
the lungs due to the patient’s long standing heart disease.”
A hospital statement said, "It is with a deep sense of
regret that we must report the loss of our heart transplant
patient. He was a brave and courageous man whose only
real opportunity for lif was
de-icing process. By 7 a.m., about 75 men were at work
and by 8 a.m. more than 100 were operating 35 salt ma-
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where three North Viet- hour-and-20-minute opera-
namese divisions are con- tion, indicated that the rela-
ducting forays into the rich tive size of the two hearts —
school in Caddo County, was
accused of diverting $606
worth of school groceries to
his own use during Novem-
ber, 1965.
A warrant was issued for
Moore’s arrest, but he told a
newsman he would surren-
der later in the day.
"I don’t have any com-
ment,” Moore said at Brox-
ton, "but of course there’s no
grounds for anything like
that. I’m going over there
and see bout it today.”
The charge was filed by
Murray Gibbons, assistant
district attorney in McClain
County, in magistrate’s court
at Purcell.
The action stems from a
report last July by the state
examiner and inspector
which_noted several discrep-
ancies in Dibble fiscal ac-
counts, especially in the
school lunch fund.
Moore, who earned his
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great hope for this procedure
This strategy has been in patients with severe heart
nists in the vicious border continued into 1968 with a se- disease," said the statement.
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Freezing drizzle glazed
streets and highways in
most of central and east-
ern Oklahoma Wednesday
morning, triggering nu-
merous traffic accidents,
slowing or stalling traffic
and prompting hazardous
driving warnings.
For winter weary Soon-
ers, it was the fourth such
icy glaze in less than a
month.
Forecasters said light
freezing drizzle was ex-
pected to continue, mostly
in the southeast, until
mid-afternoon.
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NEW YORK (AP) — De-
liberately one Sunday
morning, surgeons cut out
the sick but still-beating
heart of a human being —
and put a healthy human
heart in its place.
That audacious surgery
— first performed Decem-
ber 3 — now has been re-
peated four times more in
37 days.
Three highly skilled
teams of surgeons, nurses,
anesthetists, pathologists
and other specialists, in
three cities, have pio-
neered this new era of sur-
gery.
Reasoned Boldness Shown
They were all ready, all
long trained, for just this
step. And more such
teams, similarly honed,
likely will perform human
heart transplants before
the year’s end.
Baptist Memorial Hospi-
tal in Oklahoma City was
reported making prepara-
tions for a heart trans-
plant, possibly in the next
few days.
The time was ripe, the
preparations made, the
confidence was building —
all through 1967 and even
earlier — that heart* could
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"It was terrible," a spokesman said. "People were
falling and breaking legs and arms and we were getting
to them ffs fast as we could;"
Other city ambulance firms reported a quickened
pace due to accidents caused by dangerous streets.
Several outlying ambulance firms, however, reported
normal runs.
Cross-country buses slowed down but kept rolling de-
spite the ice. An Oklahoma Transportation Co. spokes-
man said buses were about one to 112 hours behind
schedule but expected to get back to normal before noon.
Planes at Will Rogers World Airport were not ham-
pered by ice on runways. Runways had been sanded and
through this procedure.”
Block, a 57-year-oldretired
fireman, was put on the hos-
pital’s critical list at 12:40
a.m. when the hospital noted
doctors were having "diffi-
culty in maintaining his
blood pressure.” He was re-
ported in "reasonably satis-
factory condition” shortly af-
ter the surgery.
’Invaluable Effort’
The hospital released word
of the death, shortly after 6
a.m.
Its statement said the op-
eration was "an invaluable
effort by the medical team”
headed by Dr. Adrian Kan-
trowitz — the second trans-
plant the team has per-
formed.
It was the fifth such opera-
tion in 37 days. "Much has
been learned from this ex-
perience and we still hold out
"best-dressed" list for
1967.
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson
was dropped from the ros-
ter in the balloting by 2,000
in the fashion industry.
Also added to the list was
Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
First place went to Mrs.
Wyatt Cooper, the former
Gloria Vanderbilt, who
took over the spot held by
Princess Lee Radziwill,
Mrs. John F. Kennedy’s
sister.
Mrs. Kennedy was "pro-
moted” to the Fashion Hall
of Fame in 1965 and has
not appeared on the list
since. Others named were
Mrs. Carter A. Burden,
New York socialite; Mrs.
Charlotte Ford Niarchos of
the automobile family;
Mrs. Harilaos Theodoraco-,
pulos, wife of a Greek ship-
ping magnate; Mrs. An-
gier Biddle Duke, wife of
the ambassador to Spain;
Princess Radziwill; Laur-
en Bacall, the actress;
Mrs. Henry Ford II; Prin-
cess Alexandra of Kent,
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An omen came with the could cause difficulty. "We
savage attack on two South have had some problems,"
Vietnamese marine batta-hesaid.
lions by the Viet Cong just 10 The heart of the donor,
minutes after the new year Miss Helen Krouch of East
began. Paterson, N. J., was "rather
Wednesday, Communist small — about half of the
troops kept up slashing, size we would have thought
hit-and-run attacks. best,” h said. She weighed
In one major attack. North less than 100 pounds, he said.
Vietnamese raiders blasted a Because of this, the heart
number of U. S. Army heli- could not ‘ maintain the
copters with satchel charges body’s circulation by 'itself,
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The weather bureau said
Wednesday afternoon’s
temperatures were expect-
ed to range from 35 in the
central section to 45 in the
north and south.
Thursday's forecast is
for continued cloudiness
and high readings from 38
in the east to 50 in the west
after overnight lows from
18 in the northwest to 32 in
the southeast.
Most hazardous highway
conditions Wednesday
morning were in southeas-
tern Oklahoma, where cars
and trucks were stalled
and some roads closed.
A Durant district high-
way patrol spokesman said
all roads in that area, ex-
cept In the extreme south-
eastern corner, were "very
slick and hazardous.”
Traffic was reported
backed up for three miles
for a time on US-69 be-
tween Atoka and the Pitts-
burg County line.
Only a few minor acci-
dents were reported.
US-75 north of Coalgate
was reported "impass-
able." Several accidents
on I-35 south of Ardmore
were reported Wednesday
morning as mist continued
to fall. The temperature
was only one degree below
the freezing mark.
Heavy freezing mist
caused hazardous driving
conditions in the Drum-
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